After Five-year Delay, Port Begins Final Phase of Its Main Channel Deepening Project

The Port of Los Angeles this week began the final phase of its 13-year, $370 million Main Channel Deepening Project (MCDP).   After a five-year break in the project to identify and environmentally assess additional disposal sites for the soil dredged up by deepening the Port’s main waterways, on Thursday, a barge containing roughly 4,000 tons of boulders and fill material began to discharge its payload at a designated outer harbor location.  The site, directly west of Angel’s Gate, will be a containment area to hold clean dredge material and expand the Port’s thriving outer harbor shallow water habitat by an additional 50 acres. Read more

Port of LA Receives Multiple Awards from AAPA

The Port of Los Angeles has earned three 2010 American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) awards, excelling in the areas of Information Technology, Communications and Environmental Management. Read more

Port's Cable Show Earns Emmy Nod

The Port of Los Angeles and its partner, LA CityView, have received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award nomination for an episode of its Portfolio program, a half-hour magazine style show focused on projects and new developments around the Port complex. Read more

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Carnival Cruise Lines Brings Spirit to Port of LA in 2011

Carnival Cruise Lines announced today that it will return to the Port of Los Angeles in fall 2011 when the 2,124-passenger Carnival Spirit launches a series of five- and nine-day Mexican Riviera voyages. Read more

Port Hosts First PITCH: AFRICA Soccer Field

The Port of Los Angeles is pleased to have hosted the Annenberg Foundation's unveiling of PITCH: AFRICA, a first-of-its-kind rainwater harvesting system built into a soccer field. Using empty cargo containers to capture rain water, PITCH: AFRICA is an innovative approach designed to provide clean water on a regular basis where water is scare or unavailable throughout Africa and other parts of the world. Read more

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Fanfare Fountain Receives Los Angeles Architectural Award

The Port of Los Angeles’ Fanfare Fountains and water features at the entrance to the world cruise center and along the Harbor Blvd. Parkway promenade have received  a Los Angeles Architectural Award in the landscape architecture category by the Los Angeles Business Council. Now the largest water feature in California, the fountains and water features were designed by WET of Sun Valley, Calif. – the designers of The Fountains of Bellagio, The Fountains of CityCenter, Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center and others around the world. Read more

Multicultural Statue Unveiled at Gateway Plaza

The Port of Los Angeles is now the permanent home to a Multiculturalism Statue donated by the city of Ischia, Italy to Los Angeles and San Pedro as part of a sister-city relationship. The statue was installed on June 24 at the Gateway Plaza Fanfare Fountain Promenade. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, Consul General of Italy Nicola Faganello, Port Executive Director Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D. and Sister City of Ischia Foundation President Carmela Funicello were featured at the ceremony. The statue, by Italian artist Francesco Perilli, is a symbol of peace, unity and cultural diversity.

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Decreasing Trend in Port-Related Air Pollution at the Port of L.A. Continues

The just-released 2009 Inventory of Air Emissions associated with cargo handling operations at the Port of Los Angeles shows continuing drops in diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

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Largest U.S. Port Complex Strengthens Clean Air Action Plan with Update

Building on the across-the-board success of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) adopted in 2006, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles today released a proposed, updated Clean Air Action Plan that includes new, far-reaching goals for curbing port-related air pollution over the next decade. Read more

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Port of Los Angeles Explores Waterfront Red Car Line Expansion

Based upon the success of the existing Waterfront Red Car line, along with new opportunities associated with
the redevelopment of the San Pedro and Wilmington waterfronts, the Port of Los Angeles initiated the Waterfront Red Car Line Expansion Feasibility Study to examine in detail the various
options for expanding the Red Car line and provide recommendations based upon benefits,
feasibility, and overall costs.

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The L.A. Advantage: in L.A., it's all about Networking.

For the past decade the Port of Los Angeles has moved more containers than any other port in the nation, more
than doubling volumes during this time. Our success is not a coincidence. The Port of Los Angeles has heavily
invested to ensure that our customers could take advantage of at least three major business drivers: superior
cargo terminals, rail and warehouse infrastructure and services between dock and destination. Learn more

Check out our JobsPORTfolio!

The Port’s new JobsPORTfolio brochure shows how port development and global trade help our local, regional and national job market. Global trade and goods movement are Southern California’s strongest industries in terms of jobs and economic activity. The Port of Los Angeles powers these industries, handling almost a quarter of the cargo that enters the United States annually. Stable, well-paying jobs related to Port operations are a backbone of the Southern California economy.  

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Seaports Deliver Prosperity

For centuries, seaports have served as a vital economic lifeline by bringing goods and services to people around the world. Seaports continue to be a critical link for access to the global marketplace.
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